AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X 'Zen 3' chips show a massive leap in single-thread performance

Reliable veteran leaker TUM_APISAK has posted performance data for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X processors on Twitter.

Both chips were benchmarked in Geekbench 5. The Ryzen 9 5950X ran on an ASUS ROG STRIX X570I Gaming motherboard with 16GB of DDR4-3866 RAM, while the Ryzen 9 5900X was paired with an MSI X570 GODLIKE and 16GB of DDR4-3600.

Here are the results:

The 16-core, 32-thread AMD Ryzen 9 5950X scored 1,575 points in the single-core and 13,605 in the multi-core test. Under full load, the chip clocked at 4983 MHz, pushing up to 5010 MHz with lighter workloads.

Meanwhile, the 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X scored 1,605 in single-core and 12,869 in multi-core benchmarks. Clock speeds reached 4947 MHz under multi-threaded workloads and up to 4950 MHz in single-threaded tasks.

This makes the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X roughly 20% faster than its Zen 2 predecessor, the Ryzen 9 3950X, in single-core workloads, and 10% faster in multi-core. The Ryzen 9 5900X also put up strong numbers, beating the Ryzen 9 3900X by 20-25% in single-core tasks, though it was only 6-8% faster on average in multi-threaded benchmarks.

Compared to the rival flagship Intel Core i9-10900K, the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X offers a 15% and 20% performance uplift in multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads, respectively.